Brady Blaine

MAY 18, 2013

Our newest addition to the family made it yesterday May 17, 2013- at 8:52 am. He weighed in at 1 pound 12 ounces, and he is 12 3/4" in length. He wasn't due until September 4th, 2013. But due to an incompetent cervix he made an appearance earlier than we thought.  We came into the hospital at 10:30 on Tuesday night because I was experiencing very slight bleeding.  After talking to the doctor we were told that we'd better be on the safe side due to our first little guy being premature last September to go in and make sure that all was well.

What we didn't know was that I was fully dilated when we got to the hospital. If I was closed they were going to let me go home with orders to take it easy for the next few days.  But that just wasn't my body's plan.

The hospital staff was able to stop my labor with the use of the epidural, and some shots (I will tell you they weren't pleasant to receive).  Because we were able to get it stopped we were able to get in a lot of things that our little baby Brady needed. Such as steroids to help his lungs develop and mature a little bit, as well as we were on some other things to help prevent the mental and physical side effects of being born so premature.

He does have some bruising on his legs due to sitting in the birth canal and kicking around where my cervix should have been.  But otherwise he's looking great to be born at 24 weeks and 2 days old gestational age. He and I are both pleased that he is doing so well, as is Dad.

We are keeping our little boy in our prayers, and loving being parents.  Hopefully, life will go easier on him this time than it did with his older brother.  However, day 2 in the NICU is doing our little boy great justice. We love him and will be able to hopefully take him home in September around when he was originally due. We will keep you all updated on everything. Thank you for all that you do for us.